Internet History

The
collection
of people, hardware, and software ­- the multiaccess computer together with its
local community of users -- will become a node in a geographically distributed
computer network. Let us assume for a moment that such a network has been formed.

The Internet is a large, complex information space
that reflects much of the variety of our physical world. The key people,
organizations, and events that shaped the development of this remarkable virtual
universe are described in the following sections: